If you've been reading the CGGC eNews and The CHURCH ADVOCATE, you know that CGGC leaders at the General Conference are devoting this year to a strong emphasis on Fivefold Ministry, or APEST.
And, as Dan Masshardt has pointed out in a comment on this week's eNews , the ERC has recently "doubled down" on the pastor as the leader of the local church.
The ERC did this, of course, in the approval of the new New Strategic Plan which is built significantly on the role of the healthy, life-giving pastor.
The two leadership models, as Dan suggests, are at odds with each other.
One important question, then, at this point has to do with ERC leaders submitting to the authority of the General Conference leaders...the people who have authority over our entire body...even ERC leaders.
Will they submit or will they defy?
My personal story suggests that ERC leaders want, very much, to be submitted to.
Yet they don't submit to any authority in the CGGC...something I have pointed out repeatedly on this blog.
What they do at this point will be important.
Will they hold their own traditions and plans above the authority of their denominational leaders?
Or will they, as the Word admonishes, "submit to one another out of reverence for Christ?"
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